LaeKin Burgess Austin M. Lesson Plan #2 with Cindy 3/31

I still feel like Austin has a lot of pharyngeal constriction. We've discovered that [u] is the vowel he likes the most. Overall I think Austin tries to swallow his sound a lot. Because of this, I've been trying to get his sound to come forward. Doing 5-4-3-2-1 on a forward nasally [na] has been somewhat successful but I'm afraid he has constriction in his throat. I'll probably try this again today just to test it again. We've also worked a lot with register adjustment since with Austin it seems like it is either all or nothing so I'm trying to get him to blend the registers a little more which I'll probably do with an descending octave on [thu] where the falsetto voice is used at the top and we slowly blend into modal voice at the bottom. Overall, I would just like to get Austin to relax but I haven't really gotten him to realize he is tense yet. I'll have him move around some more while he is singing and try different neck positions as he sings.